Amy Sherald shows "Ecclesia" to Anderson Cooper
"Ecclesia (The Meeting of Inheritance and Horizons)" is three massive paintings with curved canvases on top, each featuring a Black person in brightly-colored clothing gazing out from a watchtower. The watchtowers appear to float in a bright blue sky, with no clues for the viewer as to where they are or what they are facing on the horizon. Pointing to a woman in one of the paintings, Cooper asked, "Do you have a fully-formed idea of what she is looking for?
- ▪"Ecclesia (The Meeting of Inheritance and Horizons)" is three massive paintings with curved canvases on top, each featuring a Black person in brightly-colored clothing gazing out from a watchtower.
- ▪The watchtowers appear to float in a bright blue sky, with no clues for the viewer as to where they are or what they are facing on the horizon.
- ▪Pointing to a woman in one of the paintings, Cooper asked, "Do you have a fully-formed idea of what she is looking for?
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60 Minutes Overtime Amy Sherald on "Ecclesia," her most ambitious work yet .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-60-minutes-overtime.jpg'); } By Will Croxton Updated on: July 26, 2026 / 7:00 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google Last summer, American realist portraitist Amy Sherald and correspondent Anderson Cooper were wrapping up a tour of the artist's retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York City when they arrived at what she called the "pinnacle" of the show. "Ecclesia (The Meeting of Inheritance and Horizons)" is three massive paintings with curved canvases on top, each featuring a Black person in brightly-colored clothing gazing out from a watchtower.
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